Rathbone Brothers PLC : Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers Plc (the 'Company')
Directors' shareholdings

In accordance with the rules of the Company's executive director profit share plan (the 'Plan'), following the payment of the final Rathbone Brothers Plc dividend for 2011 of 29p per share on 17 May 2012, the following directors were awarded notional deferred 'dividend share' awards of Rathbone Brothers Plc ordinary shares. The number of shares was calculated at £12.08 being the closing mid-market share price on 17 May 2012 in accordance with the Plan rules.

Ordinarily, deferred dividend share awards will vest when the underlying deferred share awards vest on the third anniversary of the end of the relevant financial year. Vesting is not subject to the satisfaction of performance conditions but all or part of an award may lapse in certain circumstances, for example in the event of the director being considered a 'bad leaver'.

Director	Deferred 'dividend share' award	Total holding	Total holding as % of issued share capital (excluding treasury shares)
I M Buckley	566	54,750	0.125%
P D G Chavasse	531	74,963	0.171%
A T Morris	507	71,460	0.163%
A D Pomfret	843	113,855	0.260%
R I Smeeton	965	140,527	0.321%
R P Stockton	574	25,986	0.059%

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

22 May 2012

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